Eliza: Oxcars, Firth Of Forth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Eliza: Oxcars, Firth Of Forth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Oxcar; 'on Oxcar Rocks, Near Inchcombe'; Inchcolm; Elie; Outer Forth Estuary; Eliza
Canmore ID 198406
Site Number NT28SW 8023
NGR NT 203 817
NGR Description NT c. 203 817
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT28SW 8023 c. 203 817
N56 1.3 W3 16.7
NLO: Oxcars [name: NT 203 817]
Inchcolm [name: NT 190 826]
Elie [name: NT 493 997].
Formerly entered as NT49NE 8017 at cited location NT c. 49 99 [N56 11 W2 49].
2 January 1877, ELIZA, 61 yrs old, of Arbroath, wooden schooner, 68 tons, 4 crew, Master D. Brand, Owner W. Thomson, Montrose, departed Granton for Arbroath, carrying coal, wind calm, stranded, Oxcar [Oxcars] Rocks, near Elie, Firth of Forth.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
Burntisland, 3rd Jan., the ELIZA, of Arbroath, Baird, went ashore on Oxcar [Oxcars] rocks, near Inchcombe [Inchcolm], and sank last night: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,563, London, Friday January 5 1877.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2753).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 2 January 1877). Eliza: this vessel stranded on [the] Oxcar Rocks [Oxcars], near Elie. Capt. Brand.
Registration: Arboath. Built 1816. 68 tons burthern. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 11.17 W2 47.83).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Neither Oxcars nor Ox Rock is noted as such near Elie on the 1996 edition of the Os 1:50,000 map, but the primary account of the loss locates it 'on Oxcar rocks, near Inchcombe'.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2004.
Loss (2 January 1877)
2 January 1877, ELIZA, 61 yrs old, of Arbroath, wooden schooner, 68 tons, 4 crew, Master D. Brand, Owner W. Thomson, Montrose, departed Granton for Arbroath, carrying coal, wind calm, stranded, Oxcar [Oxcars] Rocks, near Elie, Firth of Forth.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
Burntisland, 3rd Jan., the ELIZA, of Arbroath, Baird, went ashore on Oxcar [Oxcars] rocks, near Inchcombe [Inchcolm], and sank last night: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,563, London, Friday January 5 1877.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2753).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 2 January 1877). Eliza: this vessel stranded on [the] Oxcar Rocks [Oxcars], near Elie. Capt. Brand.
Registration: Arboath. Built 1816. 68 tons burthern. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 11.17 W2 47.83).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (11 May 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Neither Oxcars nor Ox Rock is noted as such near Elie on the 1996 edition of the Os 1:50,000 map, but the primary account of the loss locates it 'on Oxcar rocks, near Inchcombe [Inchcolm]'.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5603
Name : ELIZA
Latitude : 561110
Longitude : 24750
Date Built : 1816
Registration : ARBROATH
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 68
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 19
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 2
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1877
Comment : Stranded on Oxcar Rocks, near Elie. Capt. Brand
Cargo : COAL